RMI
Update No.4
- June 2002
SSATP
Conference
The SSATP Annual
Component Meetings and Stakeholders' Workshop is quickly approaching.
Official invitations were sent to coordinators and other invitees on
April 18, 2002. The draft RMI/RTTP meeting agenda (English
and French), the concept note (English
and French), as well as the reporting
format (English and French)
is available. A CD-ROM Toolkit which includes RMI models such as the
RED Model and Road User Charges Model, various RMI working and discussion
papers, technical notes, RMI presentations, and a sample bidding document,
will be available for dissemination at the conference. In addition,
the following CD-ROMs will be available at the conference, the SSATP
Publications 2002, SOURCE, Tariff, and Traffic. For additional information
about the CD-ROMs, please contact mdesthuis@worldbank.org
or telephone 1-202- 458-5953. For additional information about the conference,
please contact sbrushett@worldbank.org
or telephone 1-202-473-4153.
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We are pleased to
advise that the following publications are available:
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A
Review of Road Sector Reforms in Tanzania (Discussion Paper No. 2)
- The discussion paper reviews the empirical evidence with the road
fund and road agency in Tanzania and makes recommendations to strengthen
the impact of the reform program. This paper can be downloaded from
the RMI publication page at: http://www.worldbank.org/afr/ssatp/rmipubs.htm
or available upon request in hard copy addressed to: ssatp@worldbank.org
Note:
RMI will have a limited number of its publications available in Portuguese
for the Maputo Meeting.
If you have any
questions, please contact mdesthuis@worldbank.org
or telephone 1-202- 458-5953.
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Workshops
Transport Forum
This years' Transport Forum was held April 4-5, 2002 at the World Bank
in Washington, DC. The theme for the forum was "Learning from Each
Other". The forum presented an opportunity for internal staff discussion
on improving program goals and assessing progress on meeting those goals.
The link is included in this update as we believe the subject matter of
the papers presented may be of broad interest to the RMI partnership.
Papers were presented on the following major topics:
- Programmatic Operations
in Transport
- Delivering Transport
Services Better
- Improving the Climate
for Investment and Growth
- Working Across
Sectors
Papers
presented during the forum can be downloaded at: http://www.worldbank.org/transport/forum2002/program.htm
Kenyan
Roads Board Policy Workshop
The SSATP Program Manager, Nigel Ings, participated in a mission in Nairobi,
at the end of May 2002. The purpose of the mission was to participate
in the Kenyan Roads Board (KRB) policy workshop and assess its contribution
to the Bank-lead road sector review. The SSATP responded to a request
from the KRB to support in preparing and facilitating the roads sector
stakeholders' policy workshop - Thor Wetteland (RMI Consultant) was engaged
to be an active participant in the process, and the SSATP also funded
workshop facilitation services. Observers were invited to attend form
Tanzania and Uganda. The workshop was held to identify a sub-sector strategy
to mobilize rehabilitation and maintenance of roads in Kenya. Attendees
participated in breakout groups to consider policy objective issues and
options in three main categories - financial issues, institutional arrangements,
and private sector engagement. A small ad-hoc steering group considered
group outputs and consolidated them into a proposition. A significant
feature of the outputs was the re-emergence of a main roads agency/authority
approach alongside the concept of a national rural transport/roads agency/authority.
Such an agency or authority would perhaps promote coherent approaches
to policy implementation, coordinate and act as a reservoir or procurer
of capacity building resources, and act as the sole rural transport and
infrastructure service providing agency for managing funds allocated by
the KRB. The workshop established a platform to build a strategy development
process. Outputs from the workshop included agreement that the KRB should
immediately engage in a participatory process leading to the production
of a road sector strategy document for submission to government by the
end of 2002. The workshop established a platform to build the strategy
development process, including identification of the needs of the KRB
for specialist support.
For
further information, please contact: tlarsen1@worldbank.org
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Recent
Missions of RMI Staff
Guinea and Côte
d'Ivoire
An RMI team member, Nicolas Gohel, participated in two road sector reform
reviews, one in Guinea May 20-27 and the second in Cote d'Ivoire May 28
- June 3, 2002. The work essentially involved completing for both countries:
update of the implementation of RMI concepts, testing of the new performance
assessment tool developed by RMI. The review in Guinea was led by the
Guinea RMI coordinator, Dr. Ahmadou Gueye; while the review in Côte
d'Ivoire was conducted with the help of RTTP coordinator Mr. Marcel Konan
(Côte d'Ivoire is not currently an RMI member country) The RTTP
regional coordinator for West Africa, Mr. Siele Silue, participated in
the work to reinforce the importance of the exercise for RTTP clients.
The review in both countries consisted of administering a questionnaire
to private and public sector stakeholders to assess RMI inspired road
sector reform concepts. In Guinea, several private and public sector stakeholders
such as union representatives and directors completed the questionnaire.
In Côte d'Ivoire, the questionnaire was answered only by the government
agency. The second part of the review included collecting data to conduct
the economic evaluation of road investment options as well as to prepare
an assessment of maintenance requirements and assess the funding gap.
These pilot exercises
will be among six to be presented at the forthcoming RMI annual coordinating
committee meeting in Maputo, Mozambique. The intention is to adopt a common
methodology and timeframe for completing the stakeholder survey and the
performance assessment in all RMI member countries before the end of 2002.
For further information on the reviews, please contact: ngohel@worldbank.org
Rwanda
A team from RMI (Thor Wetteland) and RTTP (George Banjo) joined with the
responsible Bank staff (Kingson Apara) in a mission with senior staff
from the Ministry of Public Works, Transport, and Communications and officials
from the Road Maintenance Fund in Kigali, Rwanda. This was a first joint
mission of RMI and RTTP to emphasize the common interest of the two components
in promoting a coherent transport strategy with a poverty reduction focus
in Rwanda. Minister Kanamugire, delivered a clear message as to the government's
commitment to the development of an overall transport sector strategy.
The team used the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and the government's
"Vision 2020" document to identify sector-wide policy goals
that provide the framework for specific priority objectives across the
range of sub-sectoral components. The government's "Vision 2020"
document delineates long term developmental goals which provide a clear
framework for defining transport contributions to the PRSP.
For further information,
please contact: sbrushett@worldbank.org
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